Meaning of pomace | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.
   countable, uncountable
2. Such residue from apples used in the process of cidermaking; also, a mass of crushed apples before the juice is pressed out.
   countable, uncountable
3. Such residue from grapes used in winemaking.
   countable, uncountable
4. Such residue (especially castor bean cake or fish scrap) used as fertilizer.
   countable, historical, uncountable
5. Synonym of pulp (“a soft, moist mass formed by mashing something”).
   UK, archaic, countable, regional, uncountable
6. Sheep offal.
   broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the vvork more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the VVring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day: […]”

“[O]ne of the Hintocks (several of which lay thereabout)—where the people make the best cider and cider-wine in all Wessex, and where the dunghills smell of pomace instead of stable refuse as elsewhere.”

“Sovv, as yet, Pomace of Cider-preſſings to raiſe Nurſeries; and ſet all ſorts of Kernels, Stones, &c.”

“Next to the VVhite is the Black Thorne and the Crab, vvhich make a very good Fence, and is raiſed as the VVhite Thorne, only if you ſovv the Pummace vvith them, they vvill come up the firſt Year.”

“To haſh a Lamb's Pumice. Boil the head and neck at moſt a quarter of an hour, the heart five minutes, and the lights half an hour, the liver boil'd or fry'd in ſlices (but not haſh'd) ſlice all the reſt very thin, put in the gravy that runs from it, and a quarter of a pint of the liquor they are boiled in, […]”

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